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Keegan Palmer took the bronze medal at the first ever World Championships of Skateboarding in Nanjing, China. Skating for Team Australia, Keegan showed the whole world he is the future of the sport. The youngest on the podium, Keegan will be setting his sights to qualify for 2020 Olympics in Tokyo during next year’s qualifying events.

Keegan Palmer has re-upped with longtime sponsor Nike SB for another 3 years. Keegan will exclusively continue to wear Nike SB shoes and apparel through the 2020 Olympics. Keegan has been riding for the brand since he was little and is now happy to be part of the global team.

Watch for Keegan to skate the first stop of Vans Park Series in Brazil this weekend.

Tia Blanco heading to her birthplace this last week to take a convincing win at the Corona Pro PR in Rincón. The surf was good throughout the contest and Tia was on fire. With the win came a check for $5000 and the official announcement that Tia has joined TEAM PR moving forward to represent the team in ISA Worlds, Pan Am Games and hopefully 2020 Olympics in Japan.

Lindsey Jacobellis has re-signed with long time partner Paul Mitchell Systems to exclusively use their haircare and petcare products. In line with Lindsey’s brand of being animal friendly, JPMS is notorious for their cruelty-free policies and industry standard products.

The most dominant snowboard cross athlete in the world has done it again! Lindsey Jacobellis sealed the deal in a close race in Spain to win her fifth world title. With no signs of slowing down, Lindsey has her sights set on that gold medal in S. Korea’s 2018 Winter Olympics.

This week Tia Blanco did it again. Representing for TEAM USA at the ISA World Surfing Games, she retained her title and won gold in the individual competition. Team USA wound up getting a bronze medal because of Tia’s performance and they also got gold in the Aloha Cup team challenge. Tia surfed amazingly well all week in Jaco dominating most of her heats with huge carves, big hacks and a couple of super stylist laybacks.

RPRT is stoked to add 10 x X Games gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist in snowboardercross, Lindsey Jacobellis, to the team. Lindsey comes to RPRT with a long history of dominating her sport. She is the face of boardercross being the X Games reigning champ and proving her dominance in the last decade and leading up to the Olympics in Korea.

Based in Southern California, but originally from the East, in her free time she loves to surf, travel and big mountain snowboard.

Tia Blanco surfed dominantly all week at the ISA World Jr’s to take the silver medal in the final. Her high scoring performances all week helped her team to secure the first ever Jr. gold medal for the USA Surf Team. In great Oceanside surf, Tia surfed hard all week and in the end missed the gold medal mark by a percentage of a point. Also the ISA World Surfing Games Gold medalist, Tia has had an amazing 2015 for Team USA. Should surfing make the Olympics in 2020, we expect to see Tia competing!